Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 230 322
Rank change year-on-year -147 +92 -36
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 501 679 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.38% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.54% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 255 299 402
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,250 £38,797
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,362 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +0.07% +3.70%
75th Percentile £79,375 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,172 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year -0.52% +6.47% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -117 454 £62,750 -11.65% 502
London -34 272 £67,750 -15.31% 355
Work from Home +30 240 £62,500 -3.85% 189
UK excluding London -196 181 £62,172 -0.52% 193
North of England -14 65 £63,076 -15.90% 45
North West +22 42 £85,000 +30.77% 22
South East -135 30 £40,000 -36.00% 56
East of England -17 27 £65,000 -9.72% 17
Midlands -47 26 £52,500 -17.97% 32
South West -77 24 £68,528 +14.21% 19
West Midlands -20 20 £57,500 -4.17% 23
Yorkshire -37 20 £60,850 -22.73% 20
Scotland +10 7 £85,000 +4.62% 14
East Midlands -30 6 £37,500 -46.04% 9
North East -44 3 £63,076 -23.54% 3
Wales -60 3 £65,000 +8.59% 6
Northern Ireland -73 1 - - 7

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.79%) Confluence
2 17 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (10.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) Moqups
6 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (7.78%) Workfront
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) Shopify
3 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Eikon
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.20%) RMDS
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 81 (16.17%) SaaS
2 72 (14.37%) AWS
3 53 (10.58%) Azure
3 53 (10.58%) iPaaS
4 18 (3.59%) GCP
5 15 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.59%) GitHub
7 12 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.20%) Figma
9 10 (2.00%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.80%) Google Workspace
11 7 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.20%) Asana
13 4 (0.80%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.80%) Miro
13 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.38%) Broadband
2 30 (5.99%) HTTP
3 10 (2.00%) WAN
4 8 (1.60%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.40%) Firewall
6 6 (1.20%) LAN
7 5 (1.00%) Network Security
7 5 (1.00%) NGN
8 4 (0.80%) MPLS
9 3 (0.60%) Intranet
9 3 (0.60%) SAN
9 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.60%) WLAN
10 2 (0.40%) DNS
10 2 (0.40%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.40%) Multicast
10 2 (0.40%) Skype
10 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.40%) VoIP
10 2 (0.40%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.58%) Metadata
2 11 (2.20%) Power BI
3 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.40%) Big Data
5 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.40%) Mixpanel
5 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.20%) MySQL
6 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.20%) Redis
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (7.78%) JIRA
2 8 (1.60%) Git
3 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.60%) Selenium
4 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.40%) Postman
5 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) JUnit
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 165 (32.93%) Marketing
2 164 (32.73%) Social Skills
3 143 (28.54%) Finance
4 77 (15.37%) Banking
5 64 (12.77%) Retail
6 58 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (11.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (11.38%) Law
8 56 (11.18%) Presentation Skills
9 46 (9.18%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (6.59%) Public Sector
11 26 (5.19%) Legal
12 21 (4.19%) Back Office
13 19 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (2.99%) Italian Language
15 14 (2.79%) Retail Banking
15 14 (2.79%) Telecoms
16 13 (2.59%) Manufacturing
17 11 (2.20%) German Language
18 9 (1.80%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 156 (31.14%) Product Manager
2 77 (15.37%) Product Owner
3 71 (14.17%) Senior
4 68 (13.57%) Lead
5 41 (8.18%) Senior Manager
5 41 (8.18%) Software Engineer
6 38 (7.58%) Senior Product Manager
7 30 (5.99%) Development Engineer
7 30 (5.99%) Software Development Engineer
8 26 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (3.99%) Consultant
9 20 (3.99%) Developer
10 16 (3.19%) Platform Manager
10 16 (3.19%) Product Lead
11 15 (2.99%) Business Consultant
12 14 (2.79%) Business Development Consultant
12 14 (2.79%) Development Consultant
13 13 (2.59%) Technical Engineer
14 12 (2.40%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (2.40%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.79%) REST
2 6 (1.20%) CSS
2 6 (1.20%) HTML
2 6 (1.20%) LangChain
2 6 (1.20%) React
2 6 (1.20%) Spring
3 5 (1.00%) Google Maps API
3 5 (1.00%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (1.00%) TensorFlow
4 4 (0.80%) LangGraph
4 4 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.60%) .NET
5 3 (0.60%) Pandas
6 2 (0.40%) CrewAI
6 2 (0.40%) FHIR
6 2 (0.40%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.40%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (0.40%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (34.53%) Product Ownership
2 62 (12.38%) Social Media
3 54 (10.78%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (10.78%) Over-the-Top Content
4 39 (7.78%) Cloud Native
5 33 (6.59%) Public Cloud
6 24 (4.79%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.19%) AI Agents
8 15 (2.99%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.40%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (2.00%) Educational Technology
12 10 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.60%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.40%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.40%) Podcast
15 7 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (1.20%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.20%) Linux
2 8 (1.60%) Windows
3 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.40%) Unix
3 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (61.68%) Roadmaps
2 221 (44.11%) Agile
3 150 (29.94%) Product Roadmap
4 130 (25.95%) Product Vision
5 113 (22.55%) Decision-Making
6 112 (22.36%) AI
7 108 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (19.76%) User Stories
9 94 (18.76%) Customer Experience
9 94 (18.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 92 (18.36%) Product Backlog
11 81 (16.17%) Product Requirements
12 76 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (15.17%) Software Engineering
13 74 (14.77%) Sprint Planning
14 72 (14.37%) User Experience
15 69 (13.77%) Product Strategy
15 69 (13.77%) Workflow
16 68 (13.57%) Analytics
16 68 (13.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.38%) Java
2 26 (5.19%) Python
3 12 (2.40%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.00%) SQL
5 6 (1.20%) Bicep
5 6 (1.20%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.00%) C++
7 4 (0.80%) R
8 3 (0.60%) Bash
8 3 (0.60%) C#
8 3 (0.60%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.60%) PHP
8 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.40%) Perl
10 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 83 (16.57%) Degree
2 14 (2.79%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.40%) Master's Degree
3 12 (2.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.80%) HND
5 8 (1.60%) HNC
6 7 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.40%) MBA
7 5 (1.00%) CSPO
7 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.00%) PMP
8 4 (0.80%) CCNA
8 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.60%) CISSP
9 3 (0.60%) PhD
10 2 (0.40%) CIMA
10 2 (0.40%) MCSA
10 2 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.79%) QA
2 21 (4.19%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.80%) GDPR
4 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.00%) PMO
5 4 (0.80%) PERC
5 4 (0.80%) SLA
6 2 (0.40%) DICOM
6 2 (0.40%) HL7
6 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.60%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Firmware
3 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (2.99%) Terraform
2 7 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.40%) WSUS
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.20%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 57 (11.38%) Adobe
2 48 (9.58%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.19%) Google
4 15 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.00%) Cisco
5 10 (2.00%) Oracle
6 7 (1.40%) Facebook
6 7 (1.40%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.00%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.00%) Juniper
8 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (0.80%) Toshiba
8 4 (0.80%) Workday
9 3 (0.60%) Aderant
9 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.60%) iManage
9 3 (0.60%) Reuters
9 3 (0.60%) VMware
10 2 (0.40%) CQG
10 2 (0.40%) Red Hat